Hello and welcome to this special edition of conflict zone on the crisis in hong kong. Over the last year, weve interviewed several probe aging and prodemocracy figures, and we challenge them all to justify what theyve done and said some of their arguments have clearly failed to stand the test of time. Mason law, a leading prodemocracy activist, fled to london in june after a warrant was issued for his arrest. This week i asked him if hed ever believed his movement could take on beijing. And when i think we have already achieved a lot of things where demonstrate the courage and bravery of how calm people and making sure the well knows that well received stay and collaborate in combating the authoritarian expansion of china. So i think we have awakened the world, but the result isnt in doubt, is it, china will get its way. Beijing will get its way, wont it . Well, beijing has been suppressing hong kong people at the cost of our basic freedom. And as a matter of fact, the world has been
Possible . Who is magical . Really, what moves and what . Who talk to people who follows her along the way, admirers and critics alike. How is the worlds most powerful woman shaping her legacy joiners . The metals last stop. Has the coronavirus already found a way to beat the vaccines . A mutation in maine has led to mess culling in denmark. The new strain doesnt appear any deadly good to humans, but it does raise serious questions. What we have to value is over time, just for the purposes of the difference in transmission or clinical severity, or with the reason, the implication for diagnostics erections. But were a long, long way away from making issue of the reason for concern is that mutations have occurred in the viruses spike protein. Thats the very target of the most developed vaccines. And officials have since discovered the corona virus on many farms in half a dozen countries. But the biggest producer, denmark is hardest hit, and its become political with the agriculture minis
And the our moral compass and altruism is our way through but how do make sure that our good intentions do not pave the road to hell i ask effective altruism evangelist professor of philosophy at Oxford University william mccaskill. William macaskill professor off the loss of a at Oxford University and the cofounder of the center of for effective altruism its really great to have you with us today welcome to our show well as case being i thank you for inviting me on so all right so the movement here associated with is called a sect of altruism i mean the very notion of this active altruism makes me wonder can altruism be ineffective or even harmful in what cases yes i think soundly isnt very often as ineffective or even harmful so there are many attempts where people try and do some out of good but actually end up. Achieving very little or just achieving far less than they could have done so for example or so that im in the United States called scared straight takes juvenile delinquent
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Eastern on cspans q and a. White House National economic counselor, larry kudlow, talk to the Washington Post yesterday about the outlook for the u. S. Economy and was asked about the status of Coronavirus Relief negotiations. Robert good to have you here. Thank you for coming. The u. S. Economy grow at a record 7. 4 percent between july and september. It has recovered two thirds of the ground it lost during the first half of the year during the pandemic, but many economists remain wary because the figure comes as the country is still entering this time of rising coronavirus cases and the economy has not entirely healed. So lets begin with these new numbers. Do you acknowledge these record gains follow record losses . Larry of course i do. The shutmic because of ins last spring generated a very heavy economic toll. Very heavy. You have a 33 increase, annualized increase in the third quarter. Thats a record. I want to go underneath the hood here because i think this is a selfsustaining